Product Description: Now in its fifth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum...read more

Product Description: The use of primary sources as texts in the classroom is growing. Teachers realize these vital witnesses provide opportunities to motivate students and improve learning. They bring students closer to the people, places, and events being studied and help students improve content knowledge while building skills...read more

Product Description: Middle school history teachers confront the same challenge every day: how to convey the breadth and depth of a curriculum that spans centuries, countries, and cultures. In Making History Mine, Sarah Cooper shows teachers how to use thematic instruction to link skills to content knowledge...read more

Provides alternative approaches to traditional history instruction, describing how historical thinking, historical literature, and hands-on experience can be used to create an interesting history curriculum.

A valuable compendium of information, trivia, statistics, essays, and analyses about the trends, issues, events, and ideas that shape the modern world encompasses such fields as Politics and Policy, Living in America, Technology and Science, Sports, The World, and much more. Original. (view table of contents)